CrankGPT

john_strinlai

instead of complaining about the website, which wouldn't be allowed, i am just going to link this much better reading experience instead: https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/ (from the "technical documentation" link at the bottom of that... page thing)

SecretDreams

I watched the "is this real" video and I'm still* not sure if it's real lol. Regardless of this website presentation, the idea is sound and I'm behind it. We need to stop giving everything away to a hyper concentrated group of wealthy super elites that do not have our best interests at heart. We already have disappointing politicians that are elected. Now we also have disappointing unelected rich decision makers altering our lives based on what bar they had their next back of napkin scheme at.

Joe_Cool

I still prefer my Magic 8 Ball, it's less exhausting. But this is pretty cool.

hmokiguess

https://github.com/ktomanek/edge_voice_agent linked repo behind the concept

kowbell

My partner just got a rowing machine that offered "watts" as a unit of how hard you're going (like "calories" or "mph") and got me wondering if they made rowing machines that could slowly charge a battery, and how much I'd need to row to power one of them fancy newfangled M5 Max MacBooks answering prompts. All that to say, CrankGPT, I am your target demographic and if you don't respond to my request for a demo I'll be cranking my keyboard with bad reviews online. Or cranking a rowing machine that powers an LLM to do it for me. Wait...

movedx01

nice, cranker

Foobar8568

We are in a state of the world where I don't know of it's a satire or a future actual product.

engineer_22

TBH I'd buy that.

isuckatcoding

Could one apply the same principle to a solar powered machine I wonder

wett

nit: “Is this real” dialog took a bit to load on mobile, a placeholder would be nice

chaidhat

In the future, humans will just all be on hamster wheels generating power for our AI overlords.

cjs_ac

I thought this was going to be about LLM-generated conspiracy theories, but the website was funny anyway. There's a technical documentation link at the bottom of the page that documents an actual working hand-crank-powered Raspberry Pi that runs a local model.

bozdemir

Slavery with extra steps? Are we trying to power some douche-bag scientist's car battery?

lostmsu

I love this idea but for gamers who need an incentive to workout. You can only game on power you generated with your own muscles.

soylentcola

Not sure it's possible to say this without being pithy, but haven't there been stories told, perhaps TV episodes and films made, regarding the concept of using human bodies to generate power in support of machine intelligence? Seems a little on the nose to me, but I guess some days it's hard to tell what's a gag and what's a legit pitch.

piinbinary

I bet if you took one of Taalas' cards which consumes 200 watts for 14,000 tokens/second [0] and slowed it down by a factor of 10, it would actually be quite reasonable to power by bicycle. [0]: https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/chip-designer-taalas-bets-on...

lukasbm

15 Million Merits

xg15

The promo video is highly unrealistic. No way there are still so many human devs in the office.

estebarb

I can do high level thinking for around 6 hours with just two scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee. What I need is something to prevent me from context drift. /starts googling how many scrambled eggs are equivalent to the energy consumed by a data center. Google how many chickens are in the world.../

zahlman

The webpage linked is an example of everything I wish people would stop doing in web design. Fortunately, at the bottom there is a link to the "technical documentation" ( https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/ ) which is vastly improved (aside from being light-mode-only and linked from a dark-mode-only marketing page). It also gives me much more interesting information (specifically: models that can apparently run acceptably on a Pi 5). Please let me read your content with a scrollbar that works the way scroll bars are supposed to, rather than turning everything into a weird slide show where you don't actually know when the next slide is coming. Please let me just click on buttons that look like links to more information, without JavaScript.